US Patent Issued to HONDA MOTOR on March 17 for "Steering device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,711, issued on March 17, was assigned to HONDA MOTOR Co. LTD (Tokyo).

"Steering device" was invented by Kotaro Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device includes: a plurality of proximity sensors having different installation positions of electrodes on the steering wheel; and a grip determination device which determines the presence/absence of gripping of the steering wheel based on filter values Ch_R_f(n), Ch_L_f(n) of measurement values from the plurality of proximity sensors. The grip determination device includes: a capacitance threshold setter which sets a reference value Ch_0 relative to the electrostati...